Baltimore

Welp. No more Sonar.

yeah it's pretty nuts!

i was all excited to get Shellac tickets on Friday (playing Baltimore was all kinds of ?! considering their MO) and then this shit went down. it was actually a decent medium/large venue, i'm bummed to see it go. and for what seems like totally unnecessar, silly bullshit. unfortunately another reason for a lot of bands to pass over Baltimore.

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i am pondering moving to baltimore.

cool! do it!

ah, i miss this place. it seems so long ago now.

I heard they have moombahton parties there, so you might need some new trousers to fit in

i was just taken aback by how awesome it seemed. i mean, i hung out with some friends (ami dang, rjyan, our very own dr3w daniel), got hit on by some gay boys, ate some amazing food, and saw a really good show in a space that reminded me of old warehouse spots in the Tenderloin. it kind of charmed my pants off, will be back in the coming months to make my final verdict— trying to get away from oakland, but i want to give myself another few months to tie loose ends and all that bullshit.

Why would you want to leave Oakland?

the short version: i'm sick of being un- or underemployed, i've pretty much exhausted many of the avenues in regards to meeting potential partners (despite the gayness of everything), and you know that comfortability that a place starts to breed in one after a few years? yeah, that's happening. also, many of my good friends, including my two best female friends, are all moving away. and some other awesome people have moved recently, too. so i'm figuring: what is stopping me?

"The Gayness of Everything" is a bar, right?

This is why i think I like LA, it's never comfortable haha (unless I stay at home)

the short version: i'm sick of being un- or underemployed

i can't speak to the possibilities re. yr other potential reasons for moving there, and things may have changed in the last two years (some dude and amon can more likely speak to this), but baltimore is imo not the place you wanna go if yr looking for easier gainful employment

not trying to piss on your parade, just keeping it as real as possible

it is a great place, though! and you can live on amounts that would have you eating cat-food-on-playing-card sandwiches in other cities, so.

if all else fails you can work at my temp agency and get me some referral money

lol... well, okay, the overall unemployment rate is at around 7% in bmore, whereas it's 10% in the bay, and most of the available jobs here are in industries that i am not capable of operating in. (sorry, i'm not a code monkey for startup).

quintessential baltimore moment, talking with rjyan about the loft he was living in with 4 other people, I asked him how much it was and he said 'oh it's $150 each but we're thinking of getting a 6th person in to get it down to $120, that would be sweeeeeet' and I think I just started rapidly blinking while trying to wrap my mind around everything in his statement

sorry, $125

sorry to be rude by mentioning dollars but it is the only way to illustrate baltimore's economies of scale

good luck baltimore / fuck you hurricane btw

sometimes i actually get nostalgic thinking about how much the rent was in my first baltimore apartment

haha yeah i lived in pretty swank mt. vernon yupster apartments both times i lived there, nicer than any other places i've ever lived, and i still paid less than anywhere else ever. (except for the house in philly with crack dens at either end of the block.)

We've been in Baltimore now for a week and we're both taken aback by how friendly everyone is. Does anyone know of a place you can have a beer and sit with your computer, but that's not a bar?

Just grab a big to-go cup from somewhere, put your beer in there, then you can go ANYwhere that's not a bar.

http://www.citycafebaltimore.com/

just go to am0n's apartment

I heard about am0n's apartment

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We've been in Baltimore now for a week and we're both taken aback by how friendly everyone is

lol!

today i was driving by lexington market and there was a man idly pedaling his bicycle in circles in the middle of the street. he was right in front of a parking garage's exit, so as one would expect some portions of his orbit were not visible to drivers coming out of the garage. sure enough someone almost hit him. he then followed the car and yelled at the driver, then kept circling around again as the car moved, and yelling at him again. it was pretty friendly. i can't stop thinking about it.

if you're into the whole goyish '50s ladies lunchroom thing, eat here - http://www.womansindustrialexchange.org/

― "the whale saw her" (gabbneb), Monday, May 18, 2009 6:33 PM

this re-opened btw, pls update gabbipedia accordingly

i rode the water taxi finally, phish-hat tip to gabbneb for that

I miss Baltimore. I loved it more than I thought. Had one scary night when I got lost but otherwise it was a great time.

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Venue FOR LEASE (Previously Sonar)

context: http://citypaper.com/news/smoked-out-1.1278443

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dear mr. unga bunga,

baltimore! where should i live? what should i do? help me!

(thank you!)

that might have been unclear. i am moving to baltimore. so excited you guys!!!

wait WHAT

:D

i dunno how much insight i can give you on where to live not knowing your budget or your preferences or where you're gonna work etc. but i can definitely offer some general advice and my wife is a real estate buff and some other people i know are super knowledgeable about different parts of the city if you really want some help. you moving for a job?

yes it's a teaching job--it's in baltimore county, but i would like to live in the city if possible. and live alone if possible.

ah cool -- where? i've lived/worked/gone to school all over the county

R4nd4llstown. Maybe silly to googleproof but I am paranoid.

I guess I could pay 1000 a month? And close to public transport would be nice.

that's cool, r-town is nice, kinda the only suburb that is not significantly whiter than the city, and if you wanted to live in the city it would be a light commute. lot of different neighborhoods to check out depending on your priorities, i guess. it occurs to me i have no idea where you live, where you moving from?